South Ballachulish, Appin Murder Cairn
Commemorative Monument (18th Century)
Site Name South Ballachulish, Appin Murder Cairn
Classification Commemorative Monument (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Appin-murder Cairn
Canmore ID 23558
Site Number NN05NW 5
NGR NN 03133 59461
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23558
- Council Highland
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Lochaber)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
Plaque on cairn reads;
'This cairn is erected on the spot where Colin Campbell of Glenure was murdered on 14th May 1752.'
Field Visit (July 1968)
NN 032 593. This cairn stands in a Forestry Commission plantation some 135m SE of Craigallan Cottage. It measures about 2.1m in height and has a diameter of about 6m at the base. Although evidently repaired and repointed in lime mortar fairly recently, the cairn appears to have been in existence at least as early as 1770 (Forbes, Journals, 132). It bears a modern metal plaque containing the inscription: THIS CAIRN IS ERECTED / ON THE SPOT WHERE / COLIN CAMPBELL / OF GLENURE / WAS MURDERED ON / 14TH MAY 1752.
RCAHMS 1975, visited July 1968
For the circumstances of the Appin Murder, see MacArthur, W, The Appin Murder (1960) and Mackay, D N, Trial of James of Stewart (1907).
